"Electronic musical instrument An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry. Such an instrument sounds by outputting an electrical, electronic or digital audio signal that ultimately is plugged into a power amplifier which drives a loudspeaker, creating the sound heard by the performer and listener. An electronic instrument might include a user interface for controlling its sound, often by adjusting the pitch, frequency, or duration of each note. A common user interface is the musical keyboard, which functions similarly to the keyboard on an acoustic piano, except that with an electronic keyboard, the keyboard"
"his arrangement of George Harrison's 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', plays a Kamaka 4-string tenor ukulele custom built to his specification by the luthiers at Kamaka's workshop. The instrument features solid master-grade Hawaiian curly koa wood and a Fishman pickup. George Harrison was also fond of the Kamaka ukulele; he played the concert, the tenor 6-string and tenor 8-string. According to one music store on Maui, Hawaii, Harrison would purchase all the Kamaka ukuleles in stock to give to his friends as gifts. Adam Sandler played a Kamaka ukulele in the movie 50 First Dates. The ukulele was a custom"
"playing a trumpet onto the surface of a timpani drum. Rockstar also consulted musicians who played traditional Western instruments; harmonica player Tommy Morgan, who had been featured on several films over his 60-year career, provided traditional harmonica segments for the game. Beyond trumpets, nylon guitars and accordions, the composers incorporated other instruments, such as flutes and ocarinas. When researching music for inspiration, Jackson found that there was no ""Western sound"" in 1911; he felt that the soundtracks of 1960s Western films, such as Ennio Morricone's work on the ""Dollars Trilogy"", was more representative of Western music. In appropriating the score"
"Working out of his custom-built backyard studio in Glendale, California, Andrews spent three months creating the score using an orchestra of obscure vintage synthesizers (a miniature hotwired Casio keyboard was unearthed at a garage sale for $10) and drum machines. His concept was to play what he termed amateurish, emotional, naïve, magical and simple music on highly unemotional, inorganic instruments—for example, a calculator with built-in twelve-note keyboard that lends a haunting portamento melody to one of the film's motifs. Other instruments used in the score include Andrews's modified piano (rather than hitting the strings directly, the hammers first make contact"
"an obscure baroque instrument, the viola d'amore, to symbolize Mary Malden's isolation and loneliness. The sound of the instrument can be heard much of the time she is on-screen. Herrmann was so impressed with viola d'amorist Virginia Majewski's performance that he wanted her credited in the film. Nicholas Ray told him ""There aren't enough cards,"" so Herrmann replied, ""Put her on mine."" In the film's opening credits, Bernard Herrmann's credit reads, ""Music by Bernard Herrmann — Viola d'Amour played by Virginia Majewski."" At the 35:25 mark, listeners can hear a sequence that Herrmann reused in 1957 as the well-known opening"
"in an interview in 1975: In another interview, Plant credited Page with the song's intricate construction: Some have speculated that this song was a variation of the never-released Led Zeppelin track ""Swan Song"", the name they chose for their own record label. Live versions of this song were performed on Led Zeppelin's 1977 concert tour of the United States. John Paul Jones originally played the melody on an acoustic guitar before introducing a custom triple-necked instrument created by Andy Manson, that included six-string and twelve-string guitars, a mandolin, and bass pedals. Jimmy Page used his brown-painted 1953 Fender Telecaster (which"
"abandoned his 1929 score for winds, brass and percussion), and he composed for a recording of the New York Woodwind Quintet and a percussionist, conducted by Leon Barzin. The film and music were later synched by James Sibley Watson, and this version was placed in the National Film Registry in 2000. Various new scores have been composed to accompany the film, including American composer Jean Hasse's version (2010) for the UK ensemble Counterpoise (violin, trumpet, saxophone, piano), available to view on YouTube. An avant-garde experimental film, the visual element predominates, including shots through prisms to create optical distortion. There is"
"Elegant"", ""Hoctor's Ballet"" and ""French Ballet Class"". The instrumental track ""Walking the Dog"", however, has been frequently recorded and has been played from time to time on classical music radio stations. Nathaniel Shilkret, musical director for the movie, hired Jimmy Dorsey and all or part of the Dorsey band as the nucleus of a fifty-piece studio orchestra including strings. Dorsey was in Hollywood at the time working the ""Kraft Music Hall"" radio show on NBC hosted by Bing Crosby. Dorsey is heard soloing on ""Slap That Bass,"" ""Walking the Dog"" and ""They All Laughed."" Gershwin was already suffering during the"
"others. Until 1970, he played acoustic piano exclusively. The final album on which he played acoustic piano in the regular sequence was ""The Awakening"". In the 1970s, he played electric piano as well; one such recording was an instrumental recording of ""Suicide is Painless,"" the theme song from the 1970 film ""MASH"", which was released on a 1973 reissue of the film's soundtrack album, replacing the original vocal version of the song by The Mash. It was rumored that the Rhodes piano was a gift from someone in Switzerland. He continued to play throughout the 1970s and 1980s, mostly in"
"music. Bass guitarist Jack Bruce, who had originally studied music on a performance scholarship for cello, played a prominent cello part in ""As You Said"" on Cream's ""Wheels of Fire"" studio album (1968). In the 1970s, the Electric Light Orchestra enjoyed great commercial success taking inspiration from so-called ""Beatlesque"" arrangements, adding the cello (and violin) to the standard rock combo line-up and in 1978 the UK based rock band, Colosseum II, collaborated with cellist Julian Lloyd Webber on the recording ""Variations"". Most notably, Pink Floyd included a cello solo in their 1970 epic instrumental ""Atom Heart Mother"". Bass guitarist Mike"
"of the music would heavily anticipate his score to the 2000 film ""The Patriot"". ""American Journey"" is scored for three flutes (II doubling on Irish flute, III doubling on piccolo), two oboes, English horn, three clarinets (III doubling on bass clarinet), three bassoons (III doubling on contrabassoon), six French horns, four trumpets, four trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, chimes, cymbals, field drum, orchestral bells, small triangle, snare drum, suspended cymbal, tambourine, tamtam, triangle, vibraphone, xylophone), harp, piano, and strings (violins I & II, violas, violoncellos, and double basses) with optional accompaniment by two narrators. The film music critic James"
"English horns, an E♭ clarinet, a contrabass clarinet, two alto saxophones, two baritone saxophones, three bassoons, a contrabassoon, six horns, four B♭trumpets (alternating one D trumpet), four trombones, two tubas, percussion (4 players), twenty violins, eight violas, eight celli, six basses, harp, piano, harmonium, organ, and bass electric guitar. The percussionists play timpani, military drum, friction drum, bass drum, slapstick, five wood blocks, ratchet, guiro, bamboo scrapers, cymbals, six suspended cymbals, 2 tam-tams, 2 gongs, Javanese gong, triangle, tubular bells, church bell, sacring bells, musical saw, flexatone, and siren (not mentioned in the instrumentation list at the beginning of the"
"of bamboo, ivory, bone or wood, graduated between 2 and 3.5 cm in height, which are affixed to the fretboard with wax or glue. Its highest two strings are made of silk yarn, catgut or nylon while the lowest is made of metal. They are tuned C–G–c. The instrument is usually supported by three or five legs. The player—sitting beside the instrument—uses his or her left hand on the fretboard while plucking the string with his right hand with a 5- to 6-cm long, tapered plectrum made from ivory, bone or water buffalo horn, which is tied to the player's"
"Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, as well as for the Beatles on their song The Fool on the Hill. Ellory was a keen exponent of alto and bass flute, instruments. Ellory played on some of the Bond films' scores during their heyday with Sean Connery in the 1960s. Alfred John Ellory Alfred John Ellory or Jack Ellory (18 June 1920, Cornwall – 5 July 2009) was a British musician best known for playing flute on several of the James Bond films in the 1960s. A member of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Ellory provided music for EMI Records, including backing for the"
"a total of five. Bowing: A cello or bass bow can be used to achieve sustained tones that neither decay nor have a percussive attack. Steve Reich's ""Sextet"" uses this effect. Although the vibraphone has been predominantly used for jazz music, many classical pieces have been composed for the instrument. Notable works include: Bernard Herrmann used the vibraphone extensively in many of his film and television scores, most notably in his scores for ""Fahrenheit 451"" and ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"". Vibraphone The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone"
"parts, two trumpets, trombone, and solo violin. The first keyboard part is played by the conductor. The bass part doubles on electric bass, double bass, fretless bass, and 5-string bass. The guitar doubles on electric, acoustic, nylon-string, Hollow Body archtop and 12-string guitars, as well as mandolin. The first woodwind part doubles on alto sax, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe (optional), and English horn (optional); the second part doubles on flute, clarinet, and baritone sax. Both trumpets double on flugelhorn and the trombone doubles on tenor and bass trombones. This orchestration was originally used for the first United States national tour,"
"songs featured are constructed from motifs in the game's dynamic soundtrack. A mix of modern instruments and those featured in traditional Western films, such as the jaw harp, were used. Creative uses of instruments were used to bring unique sounds, such as playing a trumpet onto the surface of a timpani drum. Rockstar also consulted musicians who played traditional Western instruments; harmonica player Tommy Morgan, who had been featured on several films over his 60-year career, provided traditional harmonica segments for the game. Beyond trumpets, nylon guitars and accordions, the composers incorporated other instruments, such as flutes and ocarinas. When"
"and in certain styles of popular music. Harpsichords vary in size and shape, but all have the same basic mechanism. The player depresses a key that rocks over a pivot in the middle of its length. The other end of the key lifts a jack (a long strip of wood) that holds a small plectrum (a wedge-shaped piece of quill, often made of plastic today), which plucks the string. When the player releases the key, the far end returns to its rest position, and the jack falls back; the plectrum, mounted on a tongue that can swivel backwards away from"
"the film: violin, cello, and bass (all three electric), two theremin electronic instruments (played by Dr. Samuel Hoffman and Paul Shure), two Hammond organs, a large studio electric organ, three vibraphones, two glockenspiels, marimba, tam-tam, two bass drums, three sets of timpani, two pianos, celesta, two harps, one horn, three trumpets, three trombones, and four tubas. Herrmann's advances in film scoring included Unison organs, tubas, piano, and bass drum, staggered tritone movement, and glissando in theremins, as well as exploitation of the dissonance between D and E-flat and experimentation with unusual overdubbing and tape-reversal techniques. In using the theremin, Herrmann"
"and a half hours long, but has 40 minutes with music. Goldsmith's compositions, characterized by a late romantic symphonic and impressionistic style suffused with a metered, exotic timbre (using instruments from Caribbean folk music), are distributed mainly in the second half of the film. They generally accompany scenes outside the prison, during the various escape attempts by the protagonist. He used a delicate melodic approach, dominated by a very catchy theme expressed as a waltz, which was often played by an accordion. This instrument was associated with the French origin of the protagonists. The theme became famous with the popularity"
"he preferred to play more staccato, to go along with that instrument's articulation. He also played the Northumberland small-pipes; finger-style G banjo (which he had learned from his brother-in-law); organ and a variety of wind instruments. He composed 'seconds', that is duet settings, for many traditional tunes, but apparently did not write these down. He also wrote and taught music, and judged competitions; in his later years was made an honorary member of the Northumbrian Pipers' Society. Some early recordings of him, made by Peter Kennedy in 1954, one of him playing ""The Ferry Boat"" on solo fiddle, and two"
"popular TV show ""Juke Box Jury"" and appeared on every episode of BBC TV's ""Drumbeat."" On the ""Dr. No"" soundtrack, he was lead guitarist on the track, the ""James Bond Theme"". Flick continued to contribute to the James Bond soundtracks from the 1960s through the late 1980s. Apart from his early 1960s work as the lead guitarist in the John Barry Seven, Flick was a session player, featured on many early 1960s UK pop records. Flick was a member of the George Martin Orchestra, and contributed to the soundtrack of the film ""A Hard Day's Night"" playing his Olympic white"
"had paid Argott for his musical contributions to the Will Ferrell comedy ""Old School"". In the ""fourth or fifth month"" of the nine month shooting schedule, Argott and Joyce first heard of the Paramount film with Jack Black, a narrative film featuring a lead character who bore a strong resemblance to Green. One third of the $600,000 budget for the film was spent on music rights. The film opens with the a title card and the sound of Carlos Santana's guitar solo from the song ""Black Magic Woman"". Paul Green, the primary subject of the film introduces the evening's concert."
"The recording features Harrison on acoustic guitar and Lennon playing lap steel guitar. Lennon performs the first solo over the instrumental break, after which McCartney plays a piano solo. According to various commentators, Lennon used either a cigarette lighter, a shotgun shell, or the standard slide that came with the Höfner lap steel. To achieve Harrison's request for a ""bad honky tonk piano"" sound, McCartney intertwined paper between the strings of the piano. Ringo Starr contributed a drum part that, in Everett's description, provides a ""heavy backbeat"" throughout the performance. After the film project was revived in January 1970, for"
"melodic and percussion instruments. The lead melodic instrument is the ""jinghu"", a small, high-pitched, two-string spike fiddle. The ""jinghu"" is the primary accompaniment for performers during songs. Accompaniment is heterophonic – the ""jinghu"" player follows the basic contours of the song's melody, but diverges in pitch and other elements. The ""jinghu"" often plays more notes per measure than the performer sings, and does so an octave lower. During rehearsal, the ""jinghu"" player adopts his or her own signature version of the song's melody, but also must adapt to spontaneous improvisations on the part of the performer due to changed performance"
"instrument have been made in the past 70 years. Leading modern exponents of the instrument have included Christopher Hogwood and Thurston Dart. The clavichord has also gained attention in other genres of music, in the form of the Clavinet, which is essentially an electric clavichord that uses a magnetic pickup to produce a signal for amplification. Stevie Wonder uses a Clavinet in many of his songs, such as ""Superstition"" and ""Higher Ground"". A Clavinet played through an instrument amplifier with guitar effect pedals is often associated with funky, disco-infused 1970s rock. Guy Sigsworth has played clavichord in a modern setting"
"of the composer's self-deprecating sarcasm. However, considering his leftist political views, these remarks might better be understood ""as a reflection of his disdain for bourgeois consumerism, or as an attack on artistic production within a capitalist system"" . The work is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, E clarinet, B clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, two trombones, tuba, suspended cymbal, side drum, bass drum, tamtam, and strings. The original 1933 version had only two horns, one trombone, and no violas; the side drum was to be played with the snares off, and the word ""gong"" appears instead"
"of the films. From the outset the films and vaudeville acts were accompanied at the piano. Billy Good, the pianist from 1920–1922 recalled the very long hours worked by all the staff and particularly himself arduously craning up at the screen from the rather dingy pit recessed into the floor in front of the stage. However, the 'pit neck ache' didn't matter since he was 100% engrossed in the music and loved every minute of it playing two houses every night except Sunday for £1-15s–0d. a week. Billy's career changed course in 1922 when one day a potato chip machine"
"Not on the Soundtrack The original score calls for a piano, two tenor saxophones, bass guitar, percussion, and two guitars. The 2007 revival includes two pianos, two reeds, trombone, trumpet, guitar, bass guitar, and percussion. Grease (musical) Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers, the musical is set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School (based on William Howard Taft School in Chicago, Illinois) and follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of peer pressure, politics, personal core values, and love. The"
"exclusively for string piano—while keys are silently held down, as described above, all the sounding is done by direct address of the strings (). Among his other works purely for string piano are ""The Banshee"" (1925 ) and ""Sinister Resonance"" (ca. 1930). ""How Old Is Song?"" (1930–31) is for voice and string piano (the accompaniment is adapted from ""Aeolian Harp""). John Cage, a student of Cowell's, was inspired by the string piano concept to pursue his explorations of the prepared piano. In ""Music of the Spheres"", composed in 1916–18, the Danish composer Rued Langgaard directs the pianist to play glissandi"
"will bring another musical ""voice"" to the table, most commonly a harmonica or percussion; Mick Jagger, for example, plays harmonica and percussion instruments like maracas and tambourine in the Rolling Stones. Ozzy Osbourne played the harmonica on some occasions with Black Sabbath. Flutes may also be used by vocalists, most notably Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and Ray Thomas of the Moody Blues. Larger bands have long been a part of rock and pop music, in part due to the influence of the ""singer accompanied with orchestra"" model inherited from popular big-band jazz and swing and popularized by Frank Sinatra"
"better known rock recordings featuring claves are the Beatles' recording ""And I Love Her,"" and ""Magic Bus"" by the Who; claves are also utilized in the interstitial spaces of the ""Night Court"" theme. The Cuban Overture of George Gershwin includes claves. Steve Reich's ""Music for Pieces of Wood"" is written for five pairs of claves. Claves Claves (; ) are a percussion instrument (idiophone), consisting of a pair of short (about , thick dowels. Traditionally they are made of wood, typically rosewood, ebony or grenadilla. In modern times they are also made of fibreglass or plastics. When struck they produce"
"a two-string homemade diddley bow before getting his first guitar (a Harmony acoustic). Recent performers who use similar instruments include New York City-based jazz pianist Cooper-Moore, American bluesman Seasick Steve, Samm Bennett, Danny Kroha, One String Willie, and blind musician Velcro Lewis. Jack White makes one at the beginning of the movie ""It Might Get Loud"", then after playing it quips ""Who says you need to buy a guitar?"". Seasick Steve recorded a tribute song to his diddley bow on his song ""Diddley Bo"" from his 2009 album, ""Man From Another Time."" Diddley bow The diddley bow is a single-stringed"